Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/July 26

Births

 * 1856 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)
 * 1875 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1961)
 * 1894 - Aldous Huxley, English-born author (d. 1963)
 * 1908 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile (d. 1973)
 * 1928 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director (d. 1999)
 * 1939 - John Howard, (pictured) 25th Prime Minister of Australia
 * 1943 - Mick Jagger, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
 * 1949 - Roger Taylor, English musician (Queen)
 * 1949 - Thaksin Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand
 * 1959 - Kevin Spacey, American actor
 * 1973 - Kate Beckinsale, British actress

Deaths

 * 1867 - King Otto of Greece (b. 1815)
 * 1925  - William Jennings Bryan, American politician (b. 1860)
 * 1952 - Eva Perón, wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (b. 1919)

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